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perf: the read miss front takes the receiver as the fused test holds it (D4) - #11658

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Stacked on #11657 (the D3 miss front). Retarget to main after #11657 merges.

What

The read miss front now takes the receiver the way the site's fused receiver test already holds it in a register (payload minus the handle floor). The site pays one register move instead of a 10-byte movabs + add + mov, and the front folds the floor into its load offsets. That saves 3 instructions on every front call, way hits and latched megamorphic reads alike.

  • The handle floor is now one constant, RECEIVER_HANDLE_FLOOR in perry-abi. Codegen's copy and the runtime's HANDLE_BAND_MAX are pinned to it, and the pairing is checked at compile time.
  • A debug assert in pic_prime_get checks that an overflow-encoded slot never goes into a way. Ways never hold a spill entry, which is why the front has no spill re-test.

Measured and not shipped:

Results (Linux x86_64, base = #11657 c519ea9, outputs identical to node)

row base this PR
lead_poly4 132.00 129.74
lead_mega1 164.31 161.49
lead_mega 189.06 186.24
lead_lit / control 108.99 / 81.99 unchanged
tsc instructions, n=5 — −0.04%
Zod instructions, n=5 — +0.59% (within its 0.9–1.2% spread)
tsc .text 115.81 MB 115.14 MB (−0.58%)

Verification

codegen 2309/0; runtime 4738/0 (serial); gc_call_effects regen --check linux identical; wasm ABI, sso, file size and fmt OK; gc-root-dominance with stale 2 ≤ 2. Sabotage: letting an overflow slot cascade into a way turns 4 tests red; dropping the floor in the front turns 2 red.

Ralph Küpper added 15 commits September 28, 2026 01:45
…a pointer compare

A canonical key list stored whichever string its first grower passed, and a
read site holds its module's pooled literal: two objects with the same bytes.
Every key match against a shape's list therefore fell through to a byte
compare, including the megamorphic read's confirm of its slot guess.

Pool literals of at most 64 bytes are now minted as ATOMS at module init
(js_string_pool_atom): the one string object for that text in the agent,
shared by every module's pool. The intern cache's miss paths hand out the atom
for its text, and canonical lists write the atom of every key they store
(Appended::atomized on extend_slot's write paths and canonicalize's copy).
The trie still validates edges by bytes, so which object a list holds never
changes which node a probe reaches.

The atom table is per agent, bounded by program text, strong (every atom is
also a registered pool handle's value) and rewritten on move by the intern
table root scanner. A pointer match proves equal text; a mismatch proves
nothing (a list written before its atom existed), so every consumer keeps its
byte fallback. The megamorphic shape answer now scans for identity before it
compares any bytes.
…ceiver's key list first

A site latched megamorphic sends every read that misses its compact word to
js_object_get_field_ic_slow, which answered it from the receiver's shape
only after decoding the word, classifying the receiver and scanning the key
list. The site may hold one thing: a slot guess (the compact word's high
half, the slot the receiver's shape answered last), which the receiver's own
shape confirms or refutes.

The slow entry now asks that first, and only at a latched site, so a site
that can still be primed is primed as before: the receiver's ShapeId names
its record; the record's POSITION BOUND says logical key position `guess` is
inline slot `guess`; the key at that position must be this key (one pointer
compare, S3b atoms); then the receiver's slot is the answer. Anything else
continues down the unchanged path. Nothing is emitted at the site, so code
size is unchanged.

Whether a shape can answer by position is a FACT OF THE RECORD, stored in
bit 15 of flags_and_kind (RECORD_POSITIONAL, in the pairwise-disjointness
assert): an Ordinary, generation-0, hole-free shape with a keys array and no
ACCESSOR key in its attribute summary. It is written by refresh_positional
wherever an input can change (construction, with_summary, slab insert, the
in-place stable-tombstone update), read with one load on the megamorphic
path, and debug builds assert it against its definition on every read. The
bound is then min(key count, live inline slots). A test walks every minted
record of the agent and fails if the bit and its definition disagree
(sabotage: dropping the slab-insert refresh fails it, 8 of 68 records). The
in-place updaters only accept a private-epoch record (nonzero generation,
never positional), so their refreshes cannot flip the bit today; a second
test drives both updaters to zero holes and asserts that premise, so it is
where those refreshes start to matter if it ever changes.
Logical position i is read past the keys array's front offset
(array_elements_ptr), so a shifted keys array is answered correctly.

The confirm reads the record through a thread-local mirror of the ordinary
page directory (pointer and length, republished whenever the slab's `pages`
change, cleared before the slab is dropped): one thread-pointer-relative load
and two directory loads, no runtime-state resolution. The step runs in the
slow entry's frameless head; the rest of the entry moved out of line. The
mirror has a per_thread verdict in thread_exit_address_globals.json.
Minting atoms through the intern cache flagged every pool literal GC_FLAG_INTERNED,
which silently admitted literal keys to the interned-only own-property lanes
(read lane, set fast paths, chain store, proxy put). On Zod the widened read lane
misses for inherited keys: keys_find_slot_by_key_ptr 5014 -> 8022 calls, +0.3%.
Atoms are now plain allocations, and the intern cache neither adopts nor hands
them out.
… SSO unbox inventory

atomized() replaced heap-string key slots with their atom and left every other
slot alone. That was correct for short (SSO) strings, whose bits are their
identity, but only implicitly, so the SSO unbox inventory (#11627) counted it as
a new heap-only string reader. The SSO arm is now explicit.
Keep both sides of string/intern.rs: the atom table beside #11634's
young-only intern log. The atom table holds strong heap pointers, so it
gets its own young log (arm-before-publish in place(), cleared on rehash,
debug-asserted) and is scanned in both minor and full passes.
The megamorphic read asks a receiver's shape record whether key position
`guess` is inline slot `guess`. #11633 answered with bit 15 of
flags_and_kind plus `min(logical_key_count, live_inline_slot_count)` on
every ask. POSBOUND stores the answer: `position_bound: u32` at offset 40,
0 when the shape cannot answer by position, else the min. It replaces
bit 15 (reserved again), is rewritten by `refresh_positional` wherever an
input changes, and debug builds assert it against its definition on every
read. The census test now compares the stored bound with the definition.

The record grows 40 -> 48 bytes (4 bytes of tail padding).

The slab's fast lookup takes the ordinary directory mirror's address
(`ordinary_record_in`), so a caller that already holds it reads no
thread-local.
A generic property read keeps only the ShapeId compare and the slot load
inline. The compare's false edge makes one plain call to the GC-leaf
js_object_get_field_ic_front(dir, handle, key_bits, cache_slot, packed),
tests its answer against TAG_HOLE and, only on a decline, branches to the
unchanged collecting js_object_get_field_ic_slow. Receiver-validation
failures skip the front. --typed-feedback builds keep the old edge.

The front (read_confirm.rs) answers from shape facts only, in order:
- a polymorphic way (PIC_ID_TOKEN_BIT | ShapeId, slot);
- a spill entry: the compact word holds the ShapeId flipped by
  PACKED_SPILL_FLIP, and the un-flipped id must be a real ShapeId;
- a latched megamorphic site (D3): the slot guess in the compact word's
  high half, confirmed by the receiver's shape record (guess < POSBOUND and
  one key-atom word compare); a wrong guess gets one bounded scan of the
  first 32 positional keys, and the found position re-aims the site word
  unless it holds a stamp (D3b).
It allocates, collects, locks, throws and calls nothing, so it is Leaf in
the call-effects tables and nothing is spilled or relocated across it. The
slow entry asks the inherited-read cache for a never-primed site, then runs
the miss body.

The directory operand is PERRY_AGENT_PTRS slot 0, which is never null
(statically PERRY_EMPTY_SHAPE_DIR until the slab publishes its mirror):
one initial-exec load on ELF executables, the TEB TLS array plus the
runtime's PERRY_AGENT_PTRS_SECREL on Windows x86-64, the HotTls TSD read on
Apple aarch64, and the perry_shape_dir_cell leaf accessor elsewhere (x86-64
Darwin, ELF dylib/staticlib outputs, wasm). A `length` site passes the
empty directory. Absent directory pages and chunks are shared all-EMPTY
statics, so the walk has no null tests.

tsc: -0.40% instructions, .text -9.0% (127.28 -> 115.81 MB), RSS -1.2%;
lead_mega1 213.1 -> 164.3 instr/iter, lead_poly4 at base.
…it (D4)

First-read D4 (polymorphic ways). The ways stay site-owned and the GC-leaf
miss front answers them; the inline site stays one ShapeId compare and one
load. What a way hit paid beyond the front itself was the call edge, and the
largest avoidable part of it was the receiver operand: the site passed the
payload, which LLVM folds from `biased + floor` back into
`bits - POINTER_TAG`, a 10-byte movabs, an add and a move. The front now
takes `payload - RECEIVER_HANDLE_FLOOR`, exactly the fused receiver test's
biased value (already in a register on the miss edge), and folds the floor
into its own load displacements. A `length` site, which has no fused test,
subtracts the floor itself.

RECEIVER_HANDLE_FLOOR moves to perry-abi; codegen's HANDLE_FLOOR and the
runtime's HANDLE_BAND_MAX are pinned to it.

Q1: `pic_prime_get` debug-asserts that an overflow-encoded slot never
cascades into a way, the fact that lets the front answer a way with a plain
inline load and no spill re-test.

lead_poly4 132.00 -> 129.74 instr/iter (-3 per way hit), lead_mega1
164.31 -> 161.49, lead_mega 189.06 -> 186.24, lead_lit 108.99 unchanged.
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Ralph Küpper added 14 commits September 29, 2026 07:14
main brings #11633 (squashed as 10ece99), step 5 P0/P1 (#11652, the
record rep word) and step 4b (#11650). The shape record combines both
growths: position_bound (POSBOUND) at offset 40, rep at 48, 56 bytes;
the layout asserts are rebased to that. rep is not a POSBOUND input, and
a rep-typed shape carries its own bound (tested).
main's stack guard (#10812) matches AgentPtrAccess, which this branch
extended with WindowsTeb: the runtime publishes no stack limit on Windows,
so no check is emitted there, as before. The census authority surfaces and
the reallocating-chunk sabotage now name the Slot-based slab (ChunkCells,
PageSlots, Page = Slot<PageSlots>) this branch introduced.
# Conflicts:
#	crates/perry-runtime/src/object/shapes_store.rs
# Conflicts:
#	crates/perry-abi/src/lib.rs
#	crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/objects.rs
#	crates/perry-runtime/src/agent_ptrs.rs
# Conflicts:
#	crates/perry-abi/src/lib.rs
Base automatically changed from perf-megamorphic-front to main September 29, 2026 16:55
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